ZHANG Yingjun, Angela

*SHB = Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Interest
  • 6G Wireless Communications
  • Application of convex and non-convex optimization in communication system design
  • Signal processing in communication and networking systems
  • AI and machine learning for communication and networking systems
  • Mobile edge computing and mobile edge AI
Courses Taught

  • Advanced Wireless Communications
  • Advance Engineering Mathematics
  • Signals and Systems
  • Data Communications and Networking
  • Principles of Communication Systems

ZHANG Yingjun, Angela 張穎珺教授

Professor
FIEEE, FHKIE, FIET
BEng (Fudan Univ), PhD (HKUST)
(852) 3943-8465
Room 737, SHB*
yjzhang [at] ie.cuhk.edu.hk
Website

Angela Yingjun Zhang is currently a Professor at Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD degree from Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include wireless communications, signal processing, and AI for communication and networking systems.

Prof. Zhang is now a Member-at-Large of IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors, the Steering Committee Chair of IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, a member of the Steering Committees of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE SmartgridComm Conference. Previously, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, the Chair of the Executive Editor Committee of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and many years on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE JSAC special issues, IEEE IoT Journal special issues, and IEEE Communications Magazine special issues. Prof. Zhang has served on the Organizing Committees of many top conferences, such as IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, SmartgridComm, etc. She was the Founding Chair of IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee of Smart Grid Communications.

Prof. Zhang is a co-recipient of 2021 and 2014 IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Awards, 2013 IEEE SmartgridComm Best Paper Award, and 2011 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award on Wireless Communications. As the only winner from engineering science, Prof. Zhang won the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2006, conferred by the Hong Kong Institute of Science.

Recent / Selected Publications
  • H. Liu, J. Yan, and Ying-Jun Angela Zhang, “Differentially Private Over-the-Air Federated Learning over MIMO Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 8232-8247, Aug. 2024.
  • L. Chen, X. Yuan, and Ying-Jun Angela Zhang, “Coverage Analysis of RIS-Assisted mmWave Cellular Networks with 3D Beamforming,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 3618-3633, June 2024.

  • C. Cai, X. Yuan, and Ying-Jun Angela Zhang, “RIS Partitioning Based Scalable Beamforming Design for Large-Scale MIMO: Asymptotic Analysis and Optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 6061-6077, Sept. 2023.

  • J. Yan, S. Bi, and Ying-Jun Angela Zhang, “Optimal Model Placement and Online Model Splitting for Device-Edge Co-Inference,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 10, pp. 8354-8367, Oct. 2022.

  • H. Liu, X. Yuan, and Ying-Jun Angela Zhang, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Enabled Federated Learning: A Unified Communication-Learning Design Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 7595-7609, Nov. 2021.

  • L. Huang, S. Bi, and Ying Jun Zhang, “Deep reinforcement learning for online computing offloading in Wireless Powered Mobile-Edge Computing Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 2581-2593, Nov. 2020. (ESI hot paper, ESI highly cited paper).

  • H. Liu, X. Yuan, and Ying Jun Zhang, “Matrix-Calibration-Based Cascaded Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Multiuser MIMO,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 2621-2636, Nov. 2020. (ESI highly cited paper).

  • S. Bi and Ying Jun Zhang, “Computation Rate Maximization for Wireless Powered Mobile Edge Computing with Binary Computation Offloading,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 4177-4190, June 2018. (Oustanding Paper Award, IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Board)
  • Ying Jun Zhang and A. M.-C. So, “Optimal spectrum sharing in MIMO cognitive radio networks via semidefinite programming,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 363-373, Feb. 2011 (IEEE ComSoc APB Best Paper Award)
  • L. Qian, Ying Jun Zhang, and J. W. Huang, “MAPEL: Achieving global optimality for a non-convex wireless power control problem,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1553-1563, March, 2009. (2011 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award)
Research Interest

  • 6G Wireless Communications
  • Application of convex and non-convex optimization in communication system design
  • Signal processing in communication and networking systems
  • AI and machine learning for communication and networking systems
  • Mobile edge computing and mobile edge AI
Courses Taught

  • Advanced Wireless Communications
  • Advance Engineering Mathematics
  • Signals and Systems
  • Data Communications and Networking
  • Principles of Communication Systems